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Bonjour! Buenos Dias! Guten Tag! Ni Hao! Marhaba! MERLOT welcomes all language educators and students of World Languages to access the many OER available in the ever-expanding World Languages Collection. This pioneer community contains thousands of OER, many of them peer-reviewed by distinguished scholars in the field. Please peruse our collection and correspond with us if you are interested in knowing more about the World Languages community peer review process. Contact Laura Franklin (lfranklin@nvcc.edu) for more information.

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World Language Assessment: Get in the Mode! supports and empowers world language educators to improve student proficiency through a variety of assessment strategies. Focusing on the three modes of communication (interpretive, presentational, and interpersonal), this resource provides a framework of formative, interim, and summative assessments for use at any grade level.

World Language Assessment:Get in the Mode in MERLOT

New Materials

SPAN 115A - Basic Principles of Translation
These open textbooks are being utilized in a translation course for undergraduate students by Juan Berríos at California...
Qan - La ville virtuelle pour écrire et lire - The virtual city for reading and writing
Vous vous promenez dans la ville virtuelle de Qan. Vous y laissez vos textes, courts ou longs en choisissant une rue qui...
Semillas: Elementary Spanish II
Semillas: Elementary Spanish II is an intermediate Spanish open-access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and...
Estamos aquí! Comunidades bilingües e identidades regionales de los Estados Unidos
Estamos aquí! is an Open Educational Resource (OER) developed collaboratively by five Spanish as a Heritage Language...
Giornate italiane - An Italian Textbook for Beginning and Intermediate Learners
Giornate Italiane is an open educational resource designed to support beginning and intermediate learners of Italian...
Open Language Resource Center
This site showcases a range of open, freely accessible language‑learning materials created at the University of Kansas,...
Multi-Literacies Lesson Plan - Changing Traditions: The Modern Italian Family
This material includes a four day lesson plan and all learning activities to adopt a multi-literacies approach to Italian...
Piacere! Elementary Italian at The University of Iowa
Piacere! Elementary Italian at The University of Iowa is an open-access textbook that introduces students to the Italian...
Intermediate Italian: Discovering Italy through Authentic Texts
This is the first unit in an intermediate‑level Italian course designed as a bridge to advanced study by engaging...
Exploring Italian Film: A Viewing Experience for Beginning Learners
This assignment invites beginning Italian learners to watch an Italian film and engage with it through structured...
Language Program Direction Interactive Modules | CARLA
The CARLA Language Program Direction (LPD) Interactive Modules are a set of openly licensed training resources designed...
French A1–A2 Role-Play Cards: Introducing yourself and asking personal questions
This learning resource is a task-based French language activity designed to develop communicative competence through...
English Guided Conversations: Introducing yourself and talking about others ( High A2 - low B1)
This learning resource is a structured language lesson designed to develop communicative competence through guided...
French A1 Guided conversations: Asking and describing locations using basic sentencestructures
This learning resource is a structured beginner-level (A1) language lesson designed to develop communicative competence...
Deutsch-Lesen.com
Deutsch Lesen helps you learn German through reading. It publishes authentic articles across topics like science,...
Vocabulary Cube Puzzle
A fun and challenging puzzle to match up English/Spanish vocabulary words and phrases.
Cuentos paralelos español inglés : Proyecto Sherezade y autores : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Cuentos bilingües en texto paralelo en español y en inglés de Proyecto SherezadeBilingual short stories in parallel text...
Décollage - méthode de français pour débutants (version originale 10.02.2025) - Google Drive
Décollage - méthode de français langue étrangère pour débutants The Décollage project was designed by a South African...
Entre o De Nada e o que Isso: Respostas a Agradecimentos no Português Brasileiro e o Ensino de PLE em Contexto DigitalDIGITAL
This essay addresses a topic in teaching/learning of Portuguese as a second or foreign language.
Japanese Introductory 1
Japanese Introductory 1 is a comprehensive and interactive textbook for beginners eager to learn Japanese. Tailored to...
Spanish 4210/Spanish 6210 - Sociolinguistics
The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational...
Mastering Mandarin Sounds: An interactive H5P Pressbook
Mastering Mandarin Sounds: An Interactive H5P Pressbook is an open educational resource (OER) designed to help learners...
Integrating Immersive Technologies into Foreign Language Instruction: Case of Ukrainian Language and Culture
This e-book offers a discussion of immersive technologies in the context of intercultural competence and language...
Multiliteracies at the Museum: A Resource Book for Language Teachers
The educational potential of museum galleries as spaces that are both carefully curated (read: designed) and also afford...

New Members

BLANCA MERCK NAVARRO
UNIVERSIDAD DE HUELVA
David Hervas
University of Texas System - Arlington
Karin Larson
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Tara Geraci
Palomar College
Nikita Archer
Georgetown International Academy
Keith Campbell
Palomar College
Matthew Quinn
California State University, Sacramento
Katrina Naioti
Dept of Ed
Instituto Cervantes
Instituto Cervantes / Spanish Ministry of Culture
Jakir Hussain
Filmmaking
Kimber Hawkey
Talk of the Town Languages & Culture
Michelle Goode-Smith
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punithavalli kumaran
UNITAR
Adrien Meierovitch
independent learner
Frank Finch
California State University, Long Beach
Ariana Anleu
Long Beach Unified School District
Heather Nolen
Lynchburg City
Penny Wheeler
University of Technology, Sydney
David Coyle
St. Francis Xavier University
ELIANA BISTREANU
Liceul Tehnologic General Ioan Culcer
Nicoleta Grigore
Colegiul National Ecaterina Teodoroiu
Katherine Kerschen
Washington University,Saint Louis
Suleiman Halimat
Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo state
Monica Del Valle
UnitedHealth Group

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World Languages on the Web

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Penn State undergraduate earns Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian
Mar 31, 2026 01:58 PM PDT
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Mar 31, 2026 01:01 PM PDT
Bridging science and inclusion - University Affairs
Mar 31, 2026 12:30 PM PDT
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Mar 31, 2026 12:19 PM PDT
How Julia Ashworth maintained her passion for France in Nashville
Mar 31, 2026 09:04 AM PDT
U-shaped effects of foreign language anxiety on organizational identification in MNC subsidiaries
Mar 31, 2026 08:04 AM PDT
'I exposed China's espionage tactics in The Times. Now I'm being harassed'
Mar 31, 2026 07:02 AM PDT
Lumberjacks Abroad: Japan - The NAU Review
Mar 31, 2026 06:54 AM PDT
Welcome speech by the Minister of Education, Sport and Youth of the Republic of Cyprus, Dr ...
Mar 31, 2026 06:47 AM PDT
Tallinn to allow Russian-language classes in 20 schools next year | News | ERR
Mar 31, 2026 06:45 AM PDT
EU and Australia open negotiations on association to multibillion European research programme
Mar 31, 2026 06:20 AM PDT
Time for a third language in Bangladesh's schools? - The Daily Star
Mar 31, 2026 06:04 AM PDT
Local language immersion program invites community for Chinese Cultural Night - East Idaho News
Mar 31, 2026 03:33 AM PDT
Campus France convenes G7+ partners to shape the future of international higher education
Mar 31, 2026 03:04 AM PDT
ASPI's Critical Technology Tracker: in ever more technologies, China is moving towards monopoly
Mar 31, 2026 02:49 AM PDT
Educators' Workshop: Future(s) of Language Education | King's College London
Mar 31, 2026 02:39 AM PDT
2024-2025 Fulbright Foreign Student Program - U.S. Embassy in Madagascar
Mar 31, 2026 02:27 AM PDT
Efekta Education Group partners with ECC Co., Ltd. to revolutionise English language ...
Mar 31, 2026 01:57 AM PDT